ἐπιδούς (epidous)

ἐπιδούς is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπιδίδωμι, meaning “give besides; improve”. It is the aorist active participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 1.4: … , ὃ κουφότατόν ἐστὶ τῶν λεγομένων, λατρεύειν παρʼ ἀνδράσιν ὑβρισταῖς καὶ δυσμενέσιν ἀκλεῆ λατρείαν καὶ ἄτιμον ἐπιδοὺς ἑαυτόν, ἑκουσίως μετὰ παρθένων πλεύσας καὶ παίδων νέων, οὐκ ἂν εἴποι τις ἡλίκης ἐστὶ τόλμης ἢ μεγαλοφροσύνης …

Plutarch, Pelopidas 10.4: τότε δὲ μεθύοντι τῷ Ἀρχίᾳ προσαχθεὶς ὁ γραμματοφόρος καὶ τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἐπιδούς, ὁ ταύτην, ἔφη, πέμψας ἐκέλευσεν εὐθὺς ἀναγνῶναι· περὶ σπουδαίων γάρ τινων γεγράφθαι. καὶ ὁ Ἀρχίας μειδιάσας, …

All forms of ἐπιδίδωμι (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.